Talks

“On the Relationship between Diagram, Evidentiality and Divinatory Technique”. In the panel: “Fathoming the Universe and Calculating for Perfection: The Book of Changes as a Cosmological Map in the First Millennium CE China” with Constance Cook (Chair), Lisa Raphals, Zhao Lu, and Fabrizio Pregadio. Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting 2016, Seattle, WA, USA.

“On the Relationship between Diagram, Evidentiality and Divinatory Technique”. In the panel: “Fathoming the Universe and Calculating for Perfection: The Book of Changes as a Cosmological Map in First Millenium CE China” with Hon Tze-ki, Zhao Lu, and Fabrizio Pregadio, 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, EHESS, Paris, France.

23 July 2014

“Conceptual Models from Unstructured Text”. In the panel: “Mining Chinese Handbooks for Officials (Guanzhen shu): Large Text Corpora and Their Interpretation” with Michael Schimmelpfennig and Renée Gringmuth, 20th Biennial Conference of the EACS, Braga, Portugal.

9 Sept. 2012

Mining into Official Administrative Handbooks”, 19th Biennial Conference of the EACS, Paris, France.

Research interests

Chinese classics and the commentarial tradition, Chinese reflections on grammar, logic and rhetoric, traditional punctuation, mathematical treatises, divinatory and numerological techniques, cosmological diagrams with a focus on the Yijing (Book of Changes)